Great stuff! Not only does it mean we get to keep him until his best days are past him, but also when he begins to lose his pace and timing for natural reasons he will still be here teaching manliness to young CBs every day in practice. Awesome.

I’ve seen Kos play in more than enough games that we’ve shipped 4/5+ goals in so I’m not convinced his departure played any role in our collapse. We collapsed because we lost our shape and tried to win a game we never should have tried to win.

I’m not saying he’s obviously not important. But the collapses have happened with him and without him, and tonight’s collapse was because of shambolic game management from our manager.

We would have lost over two games regardless, but yesterday his departure did hurt us. Koscielny was the one who hold us together in the latter part of the first half and we lost our shape because of his departure.